We appreciate everyone the commission members, supervisor breed and everyone else who has come to our support important were not here to beg or ask for salvation but redemption. Again beside me is my lovely wife karen johnson. Someone mentioned the present vs. The past were the present. We now introduce you to a gentleman were going to go into our speaker cards. To the San Francisco Historic Preservation committee im with the San Francisco State University where i teach. Im the form leader of the San Francisco Civil Rights Movement when people could on the work in their own communities. We willing busting u busted open opportunities for a blacks. The store was the Historic Site first for japaneseamericans and they were incarcerated. And then from 6 to 45 thousand i know the history from julian who basically scald the scholarship in black studies. And before there was an installation called black studies this was an institution called marcus bookstore. Dr. Was the deepen of the college
Speaker cards. To the San Francisco Historic Preservation committee im with the San Francisco State University where i teach. Im the form leader of the San Francisco Civil Rights Movement when people could on the work in their own communities. We willing busting u busted open opportunities for a blacks. The store was the Historic Site first for japaneseamericans and they were incarcerated. And then from 6 to 45 thousand i know the history from julian who basically scald the scholarship in black studies. And before there was an installation called black studies this was an institution called marcus bookstore. Dr. Was the deepen of the college now chair a Georgia State school was from therd of the marcus. So that bookstore has been a repository of history and brought about change and astronomers so designating it as a historic landmark is crucial for a community and people of color and for San Francisco at large. I brought a letter i know you require 10 or 15 but i hope you take s it and
Through the bookstore. Please maintain the building and the structure theyre important my name is norm pain. As children as acids grouping in fillmore we remembered from fulton there was nothing but black businesses black owned and marcus bookstore search warrant is one of four left in the district and by you voting this as a historic land marble it will keep the Africanamerican Community in San Francisco to keep coming to the marcus bookstore. I understand the owners want to make the changes but we used to hang out and read books and thank you very much thank you. Thank you. Give thanks were in this room and in this plays at that time, because we all understand how important the marcus bookstore legacy is not just for the folks in this room but all the folks who have long been and will be touched by the importance of marcus books. Im monica im one of many folks who came in 1988 from buffalo new york having traveled throughout europe and when i first came here the richardsons immediate
Speaker cards. To the San Francisco Historic Preservation committee im with the San Francisco State University where i teach. Im the form leader of the San Francisco Civil Rights Movement when people could on the work in their own communities. We willing busting u busted open opportunities for a blacks. The store was the Historic Site first for japaneseamericans and they were incarcerated. And then from 6 to 45 thousand i know the history from julian who basically scald the scholarship in black studies. And before there was an installation called black studies this was an institution called marcus bookstore. Dr. Was the deepen of the college now chair a Georgia State school was from therd of the marcus. So that bookstore has been a repository of history and brought about change and astronomers so designating it as a historic landmark is crucial for a community and people of color and for San Francisco at large. I brought a letter i know you require 10 or 15 but i hope you take s it and
Color and for San Francisco at large. I brought a letter i know you require 10 or 15 but i hope you take s it and copy it on behalf of our department thank you, sir. And youll have other statements. Thank you. calling names . Commissioners thank you for your attention to this today. Im dr. Kenneth im here to ask you designate this maushg us bookstore the architect maintenance the soviet and the commercial facade around it. Still for me a sober and civic activists it should be designated as a landmark. The marcus has told stores and shaped there maushg us willing shaped the nation. Since most of you are going to hear many stories an for example, it was a site of numerous poetry and other arts. Maushg us what the save haven that shaped the phil more so still going on things. The owners julian and Ray Richardson provided the state for sober justice they provided the is that a for the constitute stylists who resolution listed the black studies and the college that i currently lead. The stu